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The Shoshone and Nez Perce tribes are local tribes in Idaho. In earlier days the Shoshone settled along the Snake River. The Nez Perce tribe came from northern Idaho. Both of these tribes weaved products for their own use, but the Shoshone tribe also sold them, and they still do today. The Shoshone tribe also “used their basketry as a utilitarian object, rather than selling them or using them for barter” (Basketry).

Most Indian names have a deeper meaning behind them or a different definition that we aren’t aware of. For instance, the name Seneca comes from the Iroquoian term which means “people of the standing or protecting rock”, and the name Cayuga means “people of the great swamp”. Originating in New York, this unique tribe belongs to the largest part of the Five Nations; they are the Iroquoian linguistic family.

Big Foot was the chief of a subtribe of the Lakota called Miniconjou. He was very old and had pneumonia. He was taking his tribe to the Pine Ridge Reservation in south-western South Dakota.

It is also known, for the prehistoric looking paddle fish. These huge fis h have been the prize possessions of many great fishermen. I once saw the enormity of a paddle fish in a picture, it was just a big as a grown man. It looked like it could have swallowed a small child whole.

The last clan of the Lenape Indians is called the Unalachtigo clan or the turkey tribe. Unalachtigo roughly translates to “the people near the ocean”. They are the southernmost tribe

The first settlers of the Atchafalaya River Basin were different Native American Tribes, including the Houma, Chitimacha, Tunica-Biloxi, Opelousas, and Atakapa Tribes. The Atchafalaya River, however, got its name from the Choctaw tribe. They arrived to the Atchafalaya River Basin in the time period around 1760 and decided to call the river the “hacha falaia”, which

Big Sandy has some history to it as well. There is an Island called Battle Island, and this is where the Chippewa drove the Sioux out of the area for good in one big battle in the year 1777. An interesting thing about this is that experts say that a part of the lake leading to the island wasn’t underwater back then.

Some reports say that the word powwow has its origin from the Pawnee word pa-wa, mean¬ing “to eat”, other sources say the word indicates a gathering of people for purpose of celebration or important event. The word Pow Wow, or pau wau, might also means a gathering of people coming together to trade. In any case, it is a special time for people to meet and rejoice, meet old friends and create new friendships. Explorers misinterpreted the ritual of dancing by medicine men, assuming that all natives gathered to sing and dance in this manner.

The Ojibwa or known as the Chippewa in European are people of northeastern North America. The term Ojibwa is said to mean the puckered moccasin people or they say the French said the word meant pictograph. The Chippewa Indians mainly lived in the Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota and Michigan. There was 35,000 Ojibwa on the continent in the mid seventeenth century. They used the word Anishinabeg to describes themselves which means “original people.” The Ojibwa has its own cultural values like honesty, generosity, endurance, wisdom, and strength of character. All these values have been instilled through education and religious practice. The tribe has had ties with the French and even helped the French fight against the British in the French and Indian war. The French traders would even wed Chippewa women. The family was of great importance to the Ojibwa tribes.

Osceola's original name was, Billy Powell. He was born in a small village now known as, Tallassee, Alabama. When he was a child, him and his family moved and settled to Florida with other members of their tribe after the Creek War in 1814. The big reason they left was because, their cheif told them, they would be paid each year for the next 20 years for the land. The Americans said if the Indians did not move, there would be bloodshed.  Most of Billy's  early life is unknown. However, they do know that, his father was an English Trader. Billy's maternal grandfather, James McQueen, was also an English trader. He is one of the first dated European to trade with the Creek tribe. Most of Billy's life, he considered Powell to be his stepfather and asserted that he was full blooded. Hence he didint like the name Billy Powell. He thought it didint go with his Indian

The Lenni-Lenape, are a Native American tribe that lived around what is now Delaware. Because of this they are often called the Delaware Indians. The Lenape actually still exist today in Oklahoma and Wisconsin. When the Europeans came, the Lenape were driven westward during the late 1600 and 1700s.

The Ottawa tribe and culture of the tribe is eminently fascinating and beautiful. The Ottawa tribe has a great deal of history behind it. The name “Ottawa” is originally spelled “Odawa” in their native language. The language that they speak is mostly English, but their native language is Ojibwa, which is related to Anishinaabe language. The tribe’s original homeland, according to bigorrin.org, is mostly in southern Ontario in Canada, which is where the name of “Ottawa” or “Odawa” came from, and Michigan. There are multiple Ottawa tribes, but there is one here in Manistee, Michigan, they are the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians. There is a legion amount of people that are in the Little River Band that are exceedingly close to me. The Little River Band is full and rich in culture. “The Little River Band of Ottawa Indians, a Michigan tribe that has survived to the present day despite the expansionist and assimilationist policies that nearly robbed it of its identity in the late nineteenth century”, explained James McClurken who published the book “Our People, Our Journey”. He then explains that they Little River Band was forced onto a reservation on the Pere Marquette and Manistee Rivers in 1858. The tribe was getting pushed and shoved around for countless years and their culture was disintegrating. In fact, my boyfriend, Andrew, his grandmother, Margaret Chandler, was a strong and tough working representative that helped and pushed the people of their tribe for over

The Kootenai Tribe historically inhabited Northwestern Montana, Northern Idaho, Eastern Washington, and parts of Southern British Columbia. In this vast region, the indigenous people were; hunters, gathers, and fisherman. The tribe is made up of six bands, and is usually spilt up from there into the Lower and Upper Kootenai Tribe. The Upper Kootenai were traditionally forest and mountain people who traveled to the prairies to hunt buffalo (Pritzker 263-264).The Lower Kootenai were more tied to water, and primarily harvested fish. These Lower Kootenai bands constructed a unique sturgeon-nosed canoe, which is only found among this tribe, and in parts of Asia (Kootenai Canoe). The Kootenai’s lived a seminomadic lifestyle. They had permanent winter villages near good

The Nez-Perce Indians got their new name that we call them today due to the French seeing the Indians with pierced noses and call them Nez-Perce meaning "pierced nose" and the name stuck.

Don’t be confused when an Indian tribe is called the Chippewa or the Ojibway because they are the same tribe. French settlers could not pronounce Ojibway correctly so they called the tribe the Chippewa. Have you ever wanted to know about the Ojibway Indians? If you read on, you will learn many interesting facts about this tribe.